What Fresh Hell: Roy Moore was simply dealing with a bad demographic hand. "Rape" used to mean something." Franklin Graham has a lurid imagination when it comes to Moore's accusers, but all the congregants at First Church of God, Republican are staring at their feet over the latest GOP closet 'mo.

Every day, we learn more and Moore and more:

The hypocrisy of Washington has no bounds. So many denouncing Roy Moore when they are guilty of doing much worse than what he has been accused of supposedly doing. Shame on those hypocrites.

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) November 17, 2017 

And Roy Moore prefers men adopt traditional dress when picking up underage girls. https://t.co/UHwjgWRXGC

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) November 21, 2017

Flip Benham: Roy Moore Pursued Teenagers Because All The Other Women Were Married

“Judge Roy Moore graduated from West Point and then went on into the service, served in Vietnam and then came back and was in law school. All of the ladies, or many of the ladies that he possibly could have married were not available then, they were already married, maybe, somewhere. So he looked in a different direction and always with the [permission of the] parents of younger ladies. By the way, the lady he’s married to now, Ms. Kayla, was a younger woman,” Benham said on WAPI 99.5 FM Monday evening. “He did that because there is something about a purity of a young woman, there is something that is good, that’s true, that’s straight and he looked for that.”

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Somewhere, Todd Akin is plotting a comeback:

“Rape used to have a narrow definition. Rape used to have a definition where it was — it was brutality, it was forced sexual attack and penetration. Now it’s become, really, any sex that the woman ends up regretting that she had. And so now the left has made it so that women who are, maybe are — I don’t want to paint a scenario because the freaks at Media Matters are listening and they want to take me out of context, so I’m not going to give specific scenarios — but you guys can do this in your own mind, where rape used to mean something.” – Breitbart editor Alex Marlow, speaking today on their SiriusXM radio show.

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Moore’s lawyers have been braying for one of his accusers to turn over the yearbook they already know he didn’t sign so they can prove he didn’t sign it. They have handwriting analysts, they say.

Handwriting analysis is bullshit. It’s not admissible in court, which is probably why Moore hasn’t followed through on his threat to file suit against the accusers. Then he could get the yearbook as part of discovery, and with it, get a report that wouldn’t prove a damn thing.

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Sheriff Bubba is pondering, on suspension, how accusing Moore’s opponent of child abuse- “sarcastically”- might be seen as tacky.

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Nationally,  Republicans are warming to the nostril-high levels of sleaze they can endure to keep their people in power.

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Men really can only think of one thing, no matter the topic you give them:

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It’s hard to imagine,  but there is other stuff going on out yonder:

The Pence Rule has gone international, only with a twist. In the US, evangelicals make it a rule never to send time without their wives present. This is because other women make the men’s penises to go insane, while being with their wives is erection buzzkill, however otherwise virtuous.

In Ankara, Turkey, LGBT people cannot gather for any purpose lest all the straight penises in the city go insane and feel obliged to smite them hip and thigh, whether their wives are there or not. It’s a new rule that runs until someday.

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-Tony Perkins, who runs a variety of antigay fronts, got popped two years ago for harboring Josh Duggar, the Arkansas incest and adultery family values fanboy, in a sinecure. So he’s keeping quiet now that a double shame has been visited upon him. Perkins also harbored a closeted gay young Republican who liked trying to convert even younger men- to conservatism, or gay sex, any port in a storm. Until last week, the guy was Ohio Republican family values fanboy Rep. Wes Goodman, who got caught in his office providing exemplary constituent services.

-Emmanuel Macron, the *resident’s French friend in the Presidents’ Club, is covering US debts. He’s making up the US contribution to the Paris climate control treaty that MOTUS welshed on.

-There is one federal agency that doesn’t hold homeless issues at bargepole length, or lock up in one of the empty floors at the State Department. So Tillerson’s Moron is jonesin’ to kill it.

-A UK blogger wonders why we get doofuses for leaders. They find their PM embarrassing, but in the world shame standings, the *resident really does break all records.

-After less than a year of getting great again, Americans’ sense of well-being is being ground to a nub.

-A group of rightwing lawyers all want lifetime federal jobs to indulge their own masturbatory fantasies, duller, to be sure, than those of radio DJs, but fervently held. The Federalist Society wants to triple the size of the federal judiciary so MOTUS can appoint them all.

-”If true”- the new Republican mantra- polls allege that both of North Carolina’s senatorial placeholders need to snag federal judgeships before voters get another crack at ‘em.

-Jeanine Pirro, MOTUS’ easy Fox interviewer, can’t tell when she’s going 119 miles per hour in a  car. We report. You decide.

-A GOP consultant says when the *resident speaks, think of it as a zoo ape flinging poo at you. Then duck!